New X-Men comment

I asked the 11-year-old today what she liked about the New X-Men book (I look at hers but I haven't followed the X-men at all since...early 90s? so I don't really know what the heck is going on over there). I had assumed she liked it because the book focuses on the younger characters, and I guess that's a factor, but she also commented on how the characters are similar to the original characters (she cited X-23, and also compared that young man whose touch can destroy flesh to Rogue--the lack of human contact thing). Interesting to me that she finds something that she considers derivative to be, while not necessarily a selling point, not a bad thing either.